Cambridge University Press
This book presents a unique, interdisciplinary
approach to disaster risk research, combining cutting-edge natural science and
social science methodologies. Bringing together leading scientists, policy
makers and practitioners from around the world, it presents the risks of global
hazards such as volcanoes, seismic events, landslides, hurricanes,
precipitation floods and space weather, and provides real-world hazard case
studies from Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and
the Pacific region. Avoiding complex mathematics, the authors provide insight
into topics such as the vulnerability of society, disaster risk reduction
policy, relations between disaster policy and climate change, adaptation to
hazards, and (re)insurance approaches to extreme events. This is a key resource
for academic researchers and graduate students in a wide range of disciplines
linked to hazard and risk studies, including geophysics, volcanology,
hydrology, atmospheric science, geomorphology, oceanography and remote sensing,
and for professionals and policy makers working in disaster prevention and
mitigation.
- Provides students,
researchers and practitioners with an interdisciplinary approach to
disaster risk research, combining natural science and social science
methodologies for hazard risk analysis
- Leading expert scientists,
policy makers and practitioners present extreme natural events and the
societal risk at regional, national and global scales, providing a unique
resource
- Detailed theoretical
discussion is avoided, enabling readers of all backgrounds to understand
and assess the material without negotiating complex mathematics
CONTENT
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
- Extreme natural hazards and societal implications –
ENHANS project
Alik Ismail-Zadeh
- The grand
challenges of integrated research on disaster risk
Gordon McBean
Extreme Hazards and Disaster Risks
- Extreme
volcanism: disaster risks and societal implications
Amy Donovan and Clive Oppenheimer
4. Extreme seismic events: from basic science to
disaster risk mitigation
Alik Ismail-Zadeh
- The spatial-temporal
dimensions of landslide disasters
Irasema Alcántara-Ayala
- Global climate
model and projected hydro-meteorological extremes in the future
Akio Kitoh
- Physically-based hurricane risk analysis
Ning Lin, Kerry
Emanuel, and Erik Vanmarcke
- Satellite-based
remote sensing estimation of precipitation for early warning systems
Soroosh Sorooshian, Phu Nguyen, Scott Sellars,
Dan Braithwaite, Amir AghaKouchak, and Kuolin Hsu
9. Predicting and mitigating socio-economic
impacts of extreme space weather: Benefits of improved forecasts
Daniel N. Baker, Jamie M. Jackson, and Lauren K.
Thompson
10. Predictability of extreme events in a
branching diffusion model
Andrei Gabrielov, Vladimir Keilis-Borok, Sayaka Olsen
and Ilya Zaliapin
Case Studies: Latin America and the Caribbean region
- Earthquakes, tsunamis,
and the related vulnerability in South America and the Caribbean – an
overview
Omar J. Pérez, Carlos Rodríguez
and José L. Alonso
- Magnetic studies
of active volcanoes in Mexico: implications for volcanic hazards and
volcano monitoring
Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi
Case Studies: Africa
- Volcanism in
Africa: geological perspectives, hazards and societal implications
Nils Lenhardt and Clive Oppenheimer
- Recent volcanic eruptions in the Afar rift, north-eastern Africa,
and implications for volcanic risk management in the region
Gezahegn Yirgu, David
J. Ferguson, Talfan D. Barnie and Clive Oppenheimer
- Large recorded
earthquakes in Sub-Saharan Africa
Vunganai
Midzi and Brassnavy Manzunzu
- Tsunami impact on the African continent:
historical cases and hazard evaluation
Vyacheslav K. Gusiakov
- Advancing
disaster risk governance in Madagascar: the role of higher education
institutions
Mahefasoa T. Randrianalijaona and Ailsa
Holloway
Case Studies: Middle East
- Natural hazards
in Saudi Arabia
Abdulaziz M. Al-Bassam, Faisal K. Zaidi and
Mohammad T. Hussein
- Large
earthquakes and tsunamis in the Mediterranean region and its connected
seas
Gerassimos A. Papadopoulos and Antonia
Papageorgiou
- Earthquake risk
and risk reduction capacity building in Iran
Mohsen Ghafory-Ashtiany
Case Studies: Asia and the Pacific Region
- The Chao Phraya
floods 2011
Sucharit Koontanakulvong
- Environmental risk management in
Australia: natural hazards
Tom Beer
- The 2008 Wenchuan, China, earthquake
Zhongliang Wu and
Tengfei Ma
- The 2011
Tohoku, Japan, earthquake and tsunami
Kenji Satake
- India’s tsunami
warning system
T. Srinivasa Kumar, Shailesh Nayak and Harsh K.
Gupta
Disaster Risks and Societal Implications
- The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction and the Hyogo
Framework for Action (2005-2015): essential tools for meeting the
challenges of extreme events
Sálvano
Briceño
- Disaster policy
and climate change: how much more of the same?
Stephen Dovers and John Handmer
- Vulnerability,
impacts and adaptation to sea level related hazards taking an ecosystem
based approach
Keith Alverson
- Extreme
geohazards: risk management from a (re)insurance perspective
Anselm
Smolka
- Hitting the
poor: public-private partnership as an option. Impact of natural
catastrophes on economies at various stages of development
Angelika Wirtz, Petra Löw, Thomas Mahl
and Sibel Yildirim
Subject Index